Reduced prostitution discrimination will lead to a drop in the violence, rape, crime, human trafficking and suicide indexes. Even more, legal prostitution will reduce violence against women. Prostitutes are vulnerable to violence form clients and pimps. The high rate of humiliation of prostitutes highly increases the rate of prostitutes being taken advantage of, raped, kidnapped, killed and even bullied. Criminalization and prohibition usually offer opportunities for criminals. Criminals are the ones who would step in to provide the goods that are illegal. They would do it by rising prices, having more financial incentives to traffic women. When something is prohibited, it allows the organized crime to flourish. The violence against women in sex market can be compared to the crimes in the markets for alcohol during Prohibition or any other illegal drugs today.
Prostitutes who experience violence may be reluctant to call the police since what they are
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Most of the sex-addicts or those who cannot control their sexual desires will have the access to sex services and will stop to randomly rape or exploit the people around them. True, there is no guarantee that every sex-addict could afford the services of a prostitute or would start practicing it because prostitution is legal. Again, it comes down to the power of choice. Legal prostitution will oppose rape. Legal prostitution will be another choice other than rape. The law supporting prostitution will shift the power. The power from pimps and traffickers will be transferred to the prostitutes. In case of any violence or abuse, prostitutes will have the possibility to fight back, to stand against their violators, to seek help and assistance. Legalization gives prostitutes opportunity to screen potential clients, and to report, or at least to credibly threaten to report, clients who give them trouble to the